-We need more tax revenue-The CEO of Apple is here because they are going to make something in the United States.-Folks are here from Massachusetts to rally support for more gun control.-Mr. Speaker, the state of the Union is good, but...............-Pass this and I will sign it, right now

Politics has never been about telling the truth, it's about convincing others to believe your story.

RedMenace wrote:Federal tax revenues as a percentage of GDP are at historic lows.Fix it.

The U.S. Is a Low-Tax Country

"This chart is a stark illustration of how Washington's recent policies have favored the "1 percent." It shows that the tax rates paid by two cohorts of super-rich Americans (millionaires in red and the richest 400 households in the entire country in blue) have plunged in recent years to historic lows, even as their incomes have skyrocketed. The fact that the average tax rate of the richest 400 people in the country is just 16.6 percent shows that Warren Buffett is far from the only billionaire paying lower taxes than middle-class Americans." -- Seth Hanlon, director of fiscal policy, Center for American Progress

This chart neatly puts the lie to the notion that lower marginal tax rates for the wealthy will produce enormous job growth by showing that, over the past sixty years, the economy has actually produced far more jobs when the top income tax rate was higher." -- Michael Linden, Director of Tax and Budget Policy, Center for American Progress